by - bjblakeslee (Thu Apr 27 2006 13:33:56 ) Ignore this User | Report Abuse
"I, 'Cowbot"
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
Set in Signal, Wyoming in 2035, where cowbots are worker drones, ranch stiffs, and sexual pleasure units for their wealthy human owners, this is the story of "homocowbotophobic" Wyoming Police Detective Ennis Delmar's investigation into the murder of Dr. Joe Aguirre, who works at U.S. Homocowbotics located deep in the foothills of Brokeback Mountain, in which a homosexual cowboy robot (a "homocowbot" or 'cowbot for short), Cowbot:JQ, appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the 'cowbot had violated the Three Laws of Homocowbotics, which simply isn't countenanced in polite Wyoming society.
Despite Detective Ennis Delmar's initial unease around Cowbot:JQ, there is an attractive and nurturing quality about Cowbot:JQ that Ennis finds both unsettling and compelling. Ennis finds himself irresistably drawn in to a world he never expected (or for that matter, even knew existed) - a world of homocowboterotica.
Delmar schedules a secret relationship with Cowbot:JQ that spans 20 years, until one fateful day when Ennis receives a letter from U.S. Homocowbotics that the company has been bought out by a huge Mexican conglomerate, and the pleasure unit Cowbot:JQ has an expired warrantee and will no longer be available for service.
But if you can't fix it, you gotta stand it...
Just as a review, here are Dr. Aguirre's Three Immutable Laws of Homocowbotics:
1) A homocowbot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A homocowbot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A homocowbot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
If a 'cowbot can break those laws, what is to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their 'cowbots?
Shoot as fast as lightnin' but it loads a mite slow...